Science
Automated Observing Network Inaugurated Telescope
SOAR telescope (left) and Gemini Observatory (right) The 4.1-meter SOAR telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile, is the pathfinder facility for AEON and successfully completed its first observing night for the network.
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Giant impact disrupted Jupiter’s core
An artist’s impression of a collision between young Jupiter and a massive planetary embryo.
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Cool Roofs Can Help Shield California’s Cities Against Heat Waves
Aerial view of white roofed homes and streets forming circular patterns; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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NASA Studies How Arctic Wildfires Change the World
In 2014, megafires in Canada’s Northwest Territories scorched more than 7 million acres of forest, releasing half as much carbon back into the atmosphere as all the plants and trees in Canada typically absorb in an entire year.
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Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos
Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow. Harsh ultraviolet radiation from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres as they glow. That neon-like glimmer is a star-induced gleam called biofluorescence, which could turn distant exoplanets into the black-light posters of outer-space, according to new Cornell research, published Aug. 13 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society “Biofluorescent Worlds II: Biological Fluorescence Induced by Stellar UV Flares, a New Temporal Biosignature,”
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Critical observation made on Maunakea during first night of return to operations
Canada-France-Hawaii telescope.
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One Year, 2 Trips Around Sun for NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument saw the solar wind streaming past during the spacecraft's first solar encounter in November 2018.
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NASA Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return
Pictured are the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu selected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Site Nightingale (top left) is located in Bennu’s northern hemisphere. Sites Kingfisher (top right) and Osprey (bottom left) are located in Bennu’s equatorial region. Site Sandpiper (bottom right) is located in Bennu’s southern hemisphere. In December, one of these sites will be chosen for the mission’s touchdown event.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020